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Lest I look like a chud, I'll make sure that whenever I ask "So, you watch anime?" that I immediately follow it up with "Did you know that in that Little Witch Academia episode where the non-humans at the magical academy unionize and strike, that when Akko joins the non-humans (respect), that the kanji on her headband are based on a style of typography called gebaji? The word gebaji derives from gebaruto, from German Gewalt. In Japanese, gebaruto generally refers to violence perpetrated by leftist student activists in the '50s and '60s. Their protest signs used a distinctive style of bold, angular, 'common man' typography, and this typographic style is to this day associated with or used as shorthand for leftist particularly student activism. Gebaji is also known by other names, such as Zengakurenmoji — you might recognize the name 'Zengakuren' from their role in the famous riot at Sanrizuka in 1985. Anyways, here's a photo of a younger Hayao Miyazaki at some kind of labor action of the union for Studio Toei. You can see that he's wearing a headband just like the one Akko wore. You gotta love a union man, eh? By the way, have you seen the, like, anime music video created by the Japanese Communist Party? Heck, do you watch any donghua, for that matter?"
COMRADE AKKO UNDERSTANDS THAT WE CAN'T JUST "METAMORPHIE FOCIESSE" OUR WAY TO A CLASSLESS, MONEYLESS SOCIETY... DO YOU?
that music video blew my goddamn mind hahahahahaha.
Complete tangent, but I'm trying to get into wuxia and xianxia right now and anyone I ask about it just tells me "Have you read Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"
Bitch, if I said I was looking for a good romance novel and you recommended Pride and Prejudice i might just slap you. Give me an anime or something. Smh
why does this thread have so many interesting eclectic comments lol, of all the threads to bring this stuff out of the woodwork it was "what are some tells that someone is fash"
anyway that was cool, thanks for sharing